by
Roger Gilbert, Publisher of MAG
“As we remember the past we must take up the challenge of the future - to a feed industry based on innovation and international cooperation that will assist the country’s development and serve the needs of its people.” That’s the stated mission of China’s Feed Museum; to speed up the continuing technological transformation of its feed industry.
Milling and Grain was fortunate enough earlier this year to be invited to tour the three-year-old Feed Museum by Dr Yongxi Ma the supervisor and Executive Curator of the museum at located at China’s Agricultural University’s West Campus off Malianwa North Road in Beijing.
The museum is a converted pilot feedmill that had belonged to the Ministry of
Agriculture’s ‘Feed Industry Centre’ and covers some 3280 square metres. It has
become a dedicated symbol of the role feed manufacturing is now playing in
feeding a country with a population which exceeds of 1.3 billion.
From its Grand Hall visitors can learn about the history and the present of the Chinese feed industry - from animal feeding, to industry developments and the operation and social status of the industry itself. The Grand Hall functions as a public access facility for academic meetings and special exhibitions.
While the museum destined to become an international meeting point, currently most of the displays are in Chinese. Regular audiences are industry visitors, students and technicians learning about every aspect of feed manufacturer and the important role it plays in terms of providing protein foodstuffs to consumers.
In 1906 the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce was located at the Sanbezi Park where the first trial work was carried on animal rearing and feeding. Liu Chunin was its first director. Seven years later the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce started the first animal testing in Zhangiakou. By 1941 a livestock group had been established called ‘The Central Animal Husbandry Experimental’ group under the directorship of Cai Wuji from the Nutritional Laboratory and Feed Crop Research Laboratory. This is considered the formation of what has now become modern-day compound feed manufacturing in China.
However, while chicken and dairy feeds took hold from 1949, real progress was not made until the mid- to late-1970s, some 10 years after more developed countries.
Read more HERE.
“As we remember the past we must take up the challenge of the future - to a feed industry based on innovation and international cooperation that will assist the country’s development and serve the needs of its people.” That’s the stated mission of China’s Feed Museum; to speed up the continuing technological transformation of its feed industry.
Milling and Grain was fortunate enough earlier this year to be invited to tour the three-year-old Feed Museum by Dr Yongxi Ma the supervisor and Executive Curator of the museum at located at China’s Agricultural University’s West Campus off Malianwa North Road in Beijing.
From its Grand Hall visitors can learn about the history and the present of the Chinese feed industry - from animal feeding, to industry developments and the operation and social status of the industry itself. The Grand Hall functions as a public access facility for academic meetings and special exhibitions.
While the museum destined to become an international meeting point, currently most of the displays are in Chinese. Regular audiences are industry visitors, students and technicians learning about every aspect of feed manufacturer and the important role it plays in terms of providing protein foodstuffs to consumers.
In 1906 the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce was located at the Sanbezi Park where the first trial work was carried on animal rearing and feeding. Liu Chunin was its first director. Seven years later the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce started the first animal testing in Zhangiakou. By 1941 a livestock group had been established called ‘The Central Animal Husbandry Experimental’ group under the directorship of Cai Wuji from the Nutritional Laboratory and Feed Crop Research Laboratory. This is considered the formation of what has now become modern-day compound feed manufacturing in China.
However, while chicken and dairy feeds took hold from 1949, real progress was not made until the mid- to late-1970s, some 10 years after more developed countries.
Read more HERE.
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